Pope's Visit Raises the Past ; Vatican Rejects Criticism Over Hitler Youth
The Washington Times › May 13, 2009
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Pope Benedict XVI celebrated a Mass at the garden of Gethsemane for thousands of pilgrims Tuesday and received a tumultuous welcome that raised the tone of his pilgrimage to the Holy Land, but repeated criticism in Israel forced Vatican officials to defend the pontiff's past.
The pontiff was greeted by a throng of cheering pilgrims as his white popemobile rolled through the olive groves in the Valley of Kidron between the Mount of Olives and the 400-year-old walls of Jerusalem's Old City. The Mass was the first the German pope has celebrated since arriving in Israel on Monday for the start of a five-day visit that has taken him to sites sacred to Jews, Muslims and Christians.See the full content of this document
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Pope's Visit Raises the Past ; Vatican Rejects Criticism Over Hitler Youth
Some Israeli politicians and newspaper columnists, however, focused on the pontiff's visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum the previous day, claiming h...
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